Man you are delusional
oh and DRINK
You call it delusional. I call it realistic.
I am extremely optimistic by nature but 15 years of going nowhere is wearing very thin.
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Peni$ is lenient. Vulv@ is nearer the Mark
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Itâs funny that I was going to finish my last post with âheading over to the Worsfold thread to see if heâs been blamed for thisâ. And you worked in a crack at him as well.
Itâs not a shot at you Redbull but there are plenty of ways of looking at things. It doesnât matter what the football world thought. It doesnât matter what Tim and Gary said this morning or what I thought this afternoon. It matters what the club and player thought based on the evidence and advice regarding success. You, me, Tim and Gary and everyone else watched it a couple of times and developed an opinion. The club and player have spent considerably longer and received knowledable advice. I trust theyâve got it right and itâs a decent fine but not weeks.
Itâs delusional because you are basing it on nothing. No facts, no evidence, no idea what has gone on behind the scenes, no clue about the player, the evidence they have and whole range of factors. It based on your own perceived bias that âthis club is farkedâ.
From your post, my takeaway is the majority have the same view that the club should have challenged the decision.
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Yes, it is not that they said that, it is how they said it.
Yes I agree that most people extrapolate the efc decision not to challenge it a tad too far.
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No facts
Ok
Fact 1 - Burton knocks out Higgins with a bump - play on nothing to see.
Fact 2 - basic law of physics is that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction, yet somehow OâMearaâs head goes the same way
Fact 3 - club doesnât clarify exactly what fact it was they decided not to challenge on
Fact 4 - we havenât won a flag for 18 years and will equal our longest ever Premiership drought next season
I could go on but you will just claim I need to drink.
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Did you have a point you wanted to make, or just compile a list of people who donât share your opinion?
Want to have a guess at what my post means?
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Yo can explain it to me - I didnât get what you meant.
I meant why bother even issuing a statement that says absolutely nothing?
Statement for the sake of it.
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You claim we are not ruthless, did you watch last year at the end?
Told Stanton, Hocking and Howlett to leave basically (and Watson but he got it).
Bulldogs wanted a large high pick or two, gave our pick away so quickly for Smith it made everyoneâs heads spin. Held the Bulldogs over the barrel and stated to them, âyou donât want him and neither does anyone else, take it or leave itâ. They blinked.
Or how about Carlisle? Stayed the course and made StKilda buckle and give up what we wanted.
How about mid-season telling a coach to go away? Pfft, pathetic club shouldnât have had to right?
You can bleat on about minuscule things that mean nothing, I will look at the things that mean something.
Statement was probably worst than not making one. I was all for a statement but to say nothing was pointless but predictable.
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See just like physics I can show you opposite arguments.
How many times have delisted a player and put them back on the rookie list? This is classic conservatism. We have probably done it over 10 times - most likely to be more than the rest of the competition put together. Success stories from this method? I mark it as one with Smack.
Also how did we do with the Ryder trade? Or Hibberd when we held out.
We cleaned out one assistant coach! Yay. At least 3 others should be gone down seasons end if we are serious.
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How have I had a crack at Worsfold? I want to know what his thoughts now are and if they are different how have they changed from this morning.
Weak replies though.
How do you know how much other clubs have done that? By your statement you have no idea just an assumption based on bias against the club. Provide the evidence to back up you claim and will agree with you, until then it is hot air with no meaning.
We were held over the barrel on Ryder, we took the best of the worst position any club has been in for a while on that. Not the clubs fault but thatâs how you see it right? Not Ryderâs of course, or his mangers, or Ports, or the AFLâs, just a weak pathetic Essendon.
We offered Hibberd the opportunity to walk away because of what he had been through, we said we would not do anything to get in his way and we would not hold up the trade. That wasnât weak or pathetic, it was the right thing to do.
You canât clean out ALL the coaches in the middle of the year, so we picked the one we felt was an issue. And guess what? It proved to be the right choice. What happens at the end of the year is another issue and has nothing to do with the current argument of this club being weak.
Two questions:
Do you think not appealing the Francis fine was âstrongâ?
Do you think Richardsonâs statement added anything?
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It was neither strong nor weak, it is a nothing issue.
Firstly people bleated for something to be said, then bleated when something was said. You get what you asked for, a nothing statement about a nothing issue. Oh and if you go back and look at comments from other clubs you will find the same basic statement, even Hawthorn.
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